Thanks to how the data is fudged in Washington, the unemployment rate is touted to now be down to 8.3%. Officially only 12.7 million are now unemployed. As I have predicted, Obama will do anything possible to get the unemployment rate to 8.0% or below by the time of the General Election on Tuesday 06 November.

President Obama has been celebrating the 243,000 jobs created in January. However, no mention has been made by Obama or the White House that 1.2 million people gave up looking for work in January. These 1.2 million people were removed from the group of persons who are reported to be unemployed, dropping the pretend unemployment number to 8.3%.